Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Behold, I am silent: for what need is there that, falsely speaking, I add shamelessness to misfortune?”

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452. “Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.”

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453. “Love’s all in all to women.”

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454. “Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.”

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455. “I was foolish and young, before that, viewing the matter closely, I saw what it is to beget children.”

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456. “I care for riches, to make gifts.”

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457. “Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.”

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458. “The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.”

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459. “They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in her bare hands!”

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460. “Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.”

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461. “Bear calamities with meekness.”

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462. “That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune’s course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.”

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463. “Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.”

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464. “The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.”

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465. “For the discreet among mortals are such as pass through life correctly with wisdom.”

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466. “Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are?”

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467. “How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.”

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468. “There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.”

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469. “This is what destroys the fine cities and homes of mortals: words spoken too well.”

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470. “The unrighteous are never really fortunate.”

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471. “The pain is good, as long as you’re not laughing.”

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472. “Only one in command: that’s the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.”

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473. “A free man? – There is no such thing! All men are slaves; some, slaves to money; some, of chance; others are forced, either by mass opinion, or threatening law, to act against their nature.”

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474. “And ’tis a rare prize for a man to obtain such a wife, but there is no lack of getting a bad spouse.”

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475. “Ah! there is naught more serviceable to mankind than a prudent distrust.”

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476. “Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless future you’ve doled out.”

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477. “Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.”

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478. “If women didn’t exist, human life would be rid of all its miseries.”

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479. “On, on! Run, dance, delirious, possessed!”

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480. “Terrible things breed in broken hearts. And I see in my mistress’ eyes a fury that wont be calmed.”

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481. “Verily we must believe the Gods are senseless, if we feel well disposed to murderers.”

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482. “Agamemnon, if you help this man, you help an impious, perjured, and polluted traitor, and by upholding evil soil you own fair name.”

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483. “Be happy, beloved face of my great friend. For us that is impossible, but you can be-we dead lack any source of delight.”

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484. “One who is about to die is really dead already and being so, exist no longer.”

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485. “I am a curse upon your house as well.”

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486. “ALCESTIS Translated by Theodore Alois Buckley.”

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487. “So that many characters which passed as heroic, or at least presentable, in the kindly remoteness of legend, reveal some strange weakness when brought suddenly into the light. When the tradition is Satyric, as here, the same process produces almost an opposite effect. It is somewhat as though the main plot of a gross and jolly farce were pondered over and made more true to human character till it emerged as a refined and rather pathetic comedy.”

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488. “A terrible thing it is to be a mother, and it bears a great endearment, and one common to all, so as to toil on behalf of their children.”

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489. “Wisdom lies in clarity.”

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490. “Tis dreadful for words and strife to happen between brothers, when they fall into dispute.”

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491. “Bakkhai: Might be a good idea, if it’s not too much bother, to show more respect for your old grandfather. Not to mention the gods. Teiresias: You’re bold and loud and glib, Pentheus, you should have been a lawyer. But you totally lack common sense. This “new invented daimon” you laugh at – take my word for it – he’s not one to laugh at. He’s going to be big.”

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492. “Many matters the gods bring to surprising ends. The things we thought would happen do not happen; The unexpected God makes possible; And such is the conclusion of this story.”

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493. “Para mi quiero, antes que un rico, un Pobre que tenga un alma grande.”

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494. “In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love.”

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495. “The powerful, in sooth, and the wealthy, are Gods to those of mortals who are unblest.”

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496. “If any man thinks wealth or power of greater worth To him who has them, than a good friend- he is mad.”

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497. “Would ye be wise, ye Cities, fly from war!”

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498. “What epitaph, I wonder, would a poet write for him?”

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499. “Give me your hand; I’ll hold you... Then wipe off on me all your uncleanness, all; I do not shrink from it.”

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500. “Teiresias: Yes well, what is it they say, you’re as young as you feel? Kadmos: We must get to the mountain. Should we call a cab? Teiresias: That doesn’t sound very Dionysian. Kadmos: Good point. Let’s walk.”

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